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Legionwood 1
Lann Northwise
The protagonist of the first game. A humble villager who is convinced by his younger sister to attend a royal festival in the nearby city, where they witness an assassination and get embroiled in larger affairs.
- Amnesiac God: He doesn't realize that he's Gaia until he regains his memories in Makir's library.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The player can choose to change his first name when beginning the game.
- Reincarnation Romance: He's the latest reincarnation of Gaia, the god of Legionwood, and is love interests with Thyrra, the reincarnation of Gaia's lover, Terra.
Liana Northwise
Lann's younger sister.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Like Lann, the player can change her name at the game's start.
- Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of the game, she seals herself and Castoth in a dimensional rift.
- Senseless Sacrifice: By trapping herself and Castoth in a dimensional rift, she accidentally allowed him access to the Sword of Lore. He then kills Liana and uses the sword to escape his prison, travels to different worlds and destroy them, absorbs the life energy of his victims, and becomes the Darkness to destroy Westholm in the past.
- Spell My Name With An S: In Legionwood 1, her name is Liana. In 2, she's Liara.
Ark
A general from the Trevelle empire. Originally joins Lann and Liana because, despite being famed back home, he had trouble attending a royal festival in their lands.
- The Atoner: After learning that he created Castoth in his past life, he's willing to do whatever it takes to save the world, even if it means allowing himself to be taken prisoner by the Followers.
- Bad Boss: Played with. Castoth believes Ark betrayed him by not coming to unseal him, which is why the demon wants revenge on his creator. However, a book in Heroes of Legionwood claims Ark felt regret upon seeing Castoth's destruction of Legionwood, which may be the main reason why he abandoned his former minion.
- Broken Pedestal: Alexis is not pleased to learn that Ark created Castoth and nearly destroyed Legionwood.
- Crutch Character: Ultimately subverted in that while Ark joins at a higher level than the main party and has higher base stats, he has less overall AP to balance it out, and is eventually on par with the rest of the party due to the nature in which characters grow. Played straight in the most current version of the game, where he starts with the appropriate amount of AP for his level, though he'll eventually fall behind in levels due to being locked out of the party for the Chilled Caverns dungeon.
- Mind Control: Can cast a minor form of this in battle to confuse enemies, which he notes makes him exceptional compared to other Trevellian casters.
Alexis
A former pirate, who currently associates with Ark.
- Dual Wielding: Alexis starts with this skill, while other characters have to learn it.
- Unexpected Successor: She ends up becoming the Empress of Trevelle.
Thyrra
The princess of Hawkshire, who joins the party in order to figure out how to stop the world war.
- Crutch Character: She is initially the only character with a skill that can damage all enemies, though later shops will allow other party members to learn such skills.
- Reincarnation Romance: She's the reincarnation of Terra, the lover of Gaia back when he reincarnated as the leader of Technopolis.
Zanthus
A Hawkshire knight who joins the party after Merces kills the king.
- My Greatest Failure: He considers himself at fault for not speaking up when his king falls for Arcanius's lies, leading to Merces assassinating the king.
- Reincarnation: Subverted. At first, the Dynastland arc makes it seem that like Lann, Thyrra, and Ark, he's a reincarnator who regained his memories, as shown by his uncanny knowledge of Dynastland and the Purity Crystal. However, the end of the quest reveals that he is Prince Elyad, who never died and was sent to the future from the previous Great War.
Terminus
The highest ranking of the Followers, who answers only to Castoth himself.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Combined with Demonic Possession. Turns out this is the reason for Terminus' actions in the first game. Due to the Dark Soul inhabiting him, he is both immortal and is unable to oppose Castoth's will. Even when he steals the Swords of Gaia and Ark from Castoth in order to oppose him, the Dark Soul causes him to think that killing Lionel's party will be in his best interest when in reality it only helps Castoth.
- Death Seeker: He's been cursed with immortality and serves Castoth in hopes that his master will grant him a Mercy Kill.
- The Dragon: He's Castoth's direct servant, and the rest of the Followers answer to him.
- Guest-Star Party Member: In Legionwood 2, he'll join whichever party member stayed behind to fight Circei.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Double subverted. After Castoth grants him a Fate Worse than Death in an alternate dimension, Terminus steals the Swords of Gaia and Ark from his master. However, the Dark Soul within him brainwashes him so that he'll be tricked into unwittingly helping Castoth anyways. Once Lionel's party removes the Dark Soul from him, he's able to oppose Castoth for real.
- Redemption Demotion: During the third Mount Gurgan boss fight, he's much weaker as a temporary party member than when he was a boss. Possibly justified due to the Dark Soul within him being removed.
- Villain Decay: In the first game, he's a Hopeless Boss Fight with maxed out stats. He returns as an Optional Boss in the second game, but his stats are far more reasonable, allowing the party to defeat him.
Merces Letifer
One of the land's most noted assassins, and a member of a sinister organization.
- The Brute: Of the Followers, he's the one given the dirty job of assassinating various world leaders and is a recurring foe for the party. His One-Winged Angel form is also bulky by the standards of this game's enemy sprites.
- Mind Control: An even stronger practitioner of this form of magic than Ark. In Chapter 1, he uses it to turn an entire castle of friendly soldiers against you.
Castoth
A powerful demon in charge of a cult. He seeks the Swords of Gaia and Ark in order to escape his seal.
- Bad Boss: He sees no reason to spare his followers, since they're still inhabitants of the planet he was meant to destroy.
- Big Bad: The opening cutscene drops his name and makes it clear that Merces answers to someone who answers to Castoth. His plan involves starting a world war and brainwashing the authority figures of various nations to help in his search for the two swords that seal him.
- The Chessmaster: He has Merces kidnap Liana in order to force the party to work for him, since his followers cannot enter the chambers containing the Swords of Gaia and Ark. He's also orchestrating a world war so that his followers can brainwash members of the warring countries into searching for a means to unseal him. He also sees through the party's attempt to trick him and sends Terminus to kill them once they take the Sword of Ark.
- Faux Affably Evil: He'll feign politeness when he needs to manipulate people, as shown when he tries to convince Lann that Ark is the real villain. Near the end of the game, he seems willing to grant Terminus's wish to die, but sends him into a pocket dimension to suffer forever, all for his own amusement.
- For the Evulz: He states his mission is to destroy Legionwood and its inhabitants, which is why he has no care for his followers. However, he still chooses to seal Terminus in another dimension rather than kill him, despite the latter action falling more in line with his mission.
- A God Am I: He spent millenia absorbing negative energy from Legionwood's inhabitants and later acquires the Swords of Ark and Gaia, making him believe he has surpassed the creator gods. During the final battle, he absorbs Ark in order to gain any latent godly power he has, and renames himself "Castark."
- Hero Killer: After being trapped in a dimensional rift, he kills Liana and claims the Sword of Lore. After going to the past as the Darkness, Lann/Gaia, Ark, and Thyrra travel from the present in order to stop him, but fail, with Lann and Ark getting killed and Thyrra being sealed away.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard:
- If the player neglected to complete the Undertaker quest in Charn, Castoth's destruction of Charn could be seen as this, since this prevents the party from obtaining the Orb of Origin, which Castoth would have absorbed to achieve his true form.
- By trapping Terminus in another dimension, he accidentally allows Liana to reproduce the technique to use on him.
- He claims the Swords of Gaia and Ark after he has Terminus steal them from the party. While traveling through different worlds and absorbing the life energy of those he kills, he powered up the two swords to the point where they can rival the Sword of Lore. Terminus steals these swords to attempt to use against him, which then fall into the hands of Lionel in the Reboot path. Lionel uses the Eternal Gates to go back in time and give the powered up swords to the original Legionwood team, who uses the swords to kill Castoth.
- Hypocrite:
- He insists destroying Legionwood is his mission and that he must carry it out, despite turning on his creator Ark, who gave him the mission in the first place. He also clearly prioritizes revenge on his creator over completing his mission.
- He holds a grudge against his creator for abandoning him, despite how he treats Terminus worse by sending him into another dimension while he's still immortal.
- Made of Evil: Possibly. Some optional lore in Heroes state that Ark accidentally tapped into the Darkness when creating him, which gets confusing because 2 states that Castoth is the Darkness due to a Stable Time Loop. Heroes also states that the Darkness's corruption is mostly due to the Sword of Lore damaging the fabric of reality.
- Not So Invincible After All: Despite becoming an unstoppable dark Energy Being known as the Darkness, he's not immune to a Temporal Paradox that prevents him from becoming the Darkness in the first place. This also applies to his regular form, which is mortal, but killable in a long battle of attrition.
- Person of Mass Destruction: After being unsealed, he destroys Charn and Klaim in order to force Ark to confront him, with the implication that he'll destroy more towns if the party tries to hide from him. As the Darkness, he destroyed several parallel worlds and started a Zombie Apocalypse in Westholm and Charn.
- Revenge: He's hellbent on getting revenge on his creator, Ark, since the latter did nothing to help him while he was sealed on Legionwood. This gets to the point where he prioritizes vengeance on his creator over destroying Legionwood.
Legionwood 2
Lionel Lucem
An imperial soldier of Trevelle, and the protagonist of the sequel.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: While the player can choose to have Lionel avoid pursuing revenge, he'll still remind the Entobians that they have Trevellian blood on their hands while acknowledging that Trevellians killed Entobians too.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Lionel's default class, Warrior, mainly uses swords and swordplay in combat.
Felix
Another imperial soldier who works alongside Lionel.
- The Atoner: He once joined a bandit group, but was targeted by them after selling them out. Rowan sacrifices himself to save Felix, but the latter is so ashamed of himself that he leaves Ferrum and joins the army. After returning to Ferrum and being called out by Ophelia for running from his crimes, Felix decides to go to the catacombs to properly pay his respects to Rowan's grave. On the high morality route, he'll sacrifice himself to close the Eternal Gate at Mount Gurgan.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: His brother, Rowan, outclassed him in every field, causing him to join a group of bandits out of spite, which he ends up regretting.
- Loveable Rogue: He starts with the Rogue class, which specializes in stealing and status effects. While he have a habit of making insensitive jokes in tragic situations, he cares more than he lets on, and later apologizes for making light of Lionel's plight.
Aelia
A Trevellian general who is stationed near Corinthe.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: When two rogue Entobian soldiers slaughter a Trevellian camp, Aelia realizes she had friends among those who were killed. While the party does kill the two Entobian soldiers, Aelia realizes that revenge didn't really make her feel better.
Marcus
The senator in charge of Ironrim.
- Broken Pedestal: Many Trevellians saw him as a Reasonable Authority Figure who managed Ironrim well, and were shocked to learn he's a Follower.
- Foreshadowing: In the Emperor's Citadel, Marcus states that the decision to kill or spare Terminus doesn't matter to his plans. Notice he didn't say "our" plan, which is a hint that he has a separate goal from the party. Sure enough, he turns out to be a Follower who wants the Darkness to destroy the world.
- The Mole: He was a Follower all along, and leaked information about the party to Circei.
- Squishy Wizard: He starts as a Magus that has high magic stats and low physical stats, though he can be reclassed.
Ophelia
A student from Ferrum Academy, who has some history with Felix.
- The Berserker: If the player is on the evil route, she'll be in the Barbarian class, a physically powerful class that can drive itself berserk.
- Power Copying: If the player is on the good route, she'll be in the Ranger class, which specializes in learning monster skills.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She's mad at Felix more for trying to run from his misdeeds than for the act of committing them. This causes him to realize that he should pay his respects at Rowan's grave and come clean to the rest of the party about his role in Rowan's death.
Khan
A soldier of Entoban, who reluctantly joins the party on his king's orders.
- The Berserker: If the player is on the good route, he'll be in the Barbarian class, a physically powerful class that can drive itself berserk.
- Jerkass Has a Point: If the player completes the bandit breakout quest, which results in the bandits double-crossing the party, Khan will call the party out for foolishly trusting the bandits and betraying the trust of the Entobians.
- Jerkass Realization: Initially, Khan has a Lack of Empathy towards the Trevellians, to the point where he told Lionel that Clara deserved to die because she probably wanted the Entobians dead. If the player brings him to Corinthe, he'll realize that the people there also want to live their life in peace and that he was wrong to disregard their deaths at the hands of the Entobians.
- Power Copying: If the player is on the evil route, he'll be in the Ranger class, which specializes in learning monster skills.
Heroes of Legionwood
Locke
The protagonist of the first episode (and optionally the others).
- Heroic Sacrifice: The third ending allows Locke to sacrifice their mortal shell to become one with the Darkness and purge it of its corruption.
- Power of Friendship: If the player increases the other party members' influence enough, Locke will gain passive stat bonuses.
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: Locke's gender is chosen at the start of the game.
- The Social Expert: Locke has exclusive access to the Speech talent, which allows them to choose a special dialogue option to attempt to get better results. For example, Speech can be used to convince a traveling merchant to give the party a Runecraft for free or convince a boss's minions that they're working for the wrong cause.
Gaius
A former adventurer and Iron Guild member who settled down as a town guard in Colony Town. He prefers Serious dialogue choices
- Conflicting Loyalty: Despite his loyalty to Glacius, he becomes attracted to the Dark Disciples because their faith in Gaia seems to be genuine.
- White Mage: His default class is the Cleric, which focuses on healing and support Techs.
Astrid
Another town guard who is a longtime friend of Locke. She prefers Casual answers.
- Critical Hit Class: Her default class is the Gunner, and has the ability to buff her or her allies' crit rates.
- Reluctant Hero: She didn't want to join the town guard and first and only did so because Locke convinced her. Even then, she doesn't believe abstract ideas like duty are worth risking her life for. In many story choices, she will prefer the illegal option because it seems like a shortcut to completing their quest faster and getting it over with. Finally, she despises the Lightbringers for forcing the party to perform a Heroic Sacrifice in Act 1, to the point where she prefers working with the Dark Disciples.
Vane
A greenhorn who was raised by Elwyn after his Lightbringer parents were killed by the Dark Disciples. He prefers Confident answers.
- Black Mage: His default class is the Magus, allowing him access to many elemental spells.
- It's Personal: He hates the Dark Disciples for killing his parents, and will be upset if the player chooses to side with them. In the Lightbringer route, he can't bring himself to forgive Pontiff Miras for his purge of the Lightbringers.
Jeska
A thief who is on the run from the Dark Disciples after she acquires a Lore Shard. She prefers Snide answers.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is as sarcastic as one would expect from her archetype, and will gain influence if the player also picks snarky dialogue choices.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Invoked. She isn't too pleased with the Lightbringers sacrificing the party to cleanse the Weave, but prefers to side with them over the Dark Disciples, who tried to hunt her down. As a former resident of Port Alexis, she also saw firsthand that the Dark Disciples don't really care about helping the citizens with their problems unless they need better publicity.
- Lovable Rogue: Her default class is Rogue, and despite being more willing to break the law than other party members, she does want to complete the quest to stop the Darkness. This is somewhat of a deconstruction, since she will prefer routes that involve stealing from powerful people, which could create more enemies for the party.
